Minimising one floating window minimises all

[Phil Cook]

Inkscape 0.48 Windows Vista & 7

Minimising any sub-window such as the "XML Editor" or "Text and Font" will minimise all windows including the main Inkscape window.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

> Inkscape 0.48 Windows Vista & 7

Please provided detailed version information for Inkscape (see Inkscape menu 'Help > About Inkscape').

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Probably a duplicate of
Bug #625516 “When trying to minimizing box "fonts and text" whole document minimizes and vanishes into corner”
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/625516>

[Phil Cook (egtjm-axi2-vr7kf)]

Inkscape 0.48.2 r9819

Affects every sub-window not just "Text and Font"

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

confirmed on Windows XP, Inkscape build 11367.
 The minimization occurs with any floating dialog such as Fill&Stroke, Object Properties, or Layers, which were the only three I tested. The minimization occurs regardles of the original state of Inkscape, maximized or not. It occurs both ways, meaning minimizing a dialog causes Inkscape to minimize and minimizing Inkscape causes the dialog to minimize as well.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

@Alvin:

1) How does this report differ from bug #625516 (except that it describes the scope more precisely by mentioned other dialogs besides 'Text & Font')? Can we merge the two reports, or do we need to track them separately?

2) Does the preference 'Interface > Windows > Miscellaneous: [x] Dialogs are hidden in the taskbar' have any effect on this behavior?

[Phil Cook (egtjm-axi2-vr7kf)]

If it helps with the testing restoring the main Inkscape window after minimising a floating dialog box does not restore any dialog boxes. However restoring one dialog box restores them all.

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

>> How does this report differ from bug #625516 (except that it describes the scope more precisely by mentioned other dialogs besides 'Text & Font')? Can we merge the two reports, or do we need to track them separately?

- yes, I think this is the same bug, these reports can be merged.

>> Does the preference 'Interface > Windows > Miscellaneous: [x] Dialogs are hidden in the taskbar' have any effect on this behavior?

- this option does not appear to exist on Windows. I have the Windows > Miscellaneous section but no option like that, on rev 11367.

- also I cannot individually click on separate windows when they are minimized, as suggested in the previous comment (7). When they are minimized then there is only one icon, so it is not possible to choose whether to restore Inkscape or the floating dialog. In any event, this appears to be a duplicate bug

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Reproduced again on Windows XP, trunk rev. 14020.

[Nathan Lee (nathan.lee)]

Closing as part of migration to GitLab. Issue is still being tracked in https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/1563